Exclude Category by Name

Hey Everyone,

I am doing the CSS Reboot thing and offering my theme as a free download when I’m done.

I think I’ll cut streight to the point, today! Basically, what I want to do is to include an asides feature by default in the theme. I want to exclude the asides category on the home page, for obvious reasons. But, as with the nature of WordPress, everyone’s Asides category number will be different. I am trying to excluse the asides with code such as this:

if (is_home()) {
query_posts('category_name=-Asides');
}
?>

However, this only displays the posts in that category! Where am I going wrong?

Many Thanks in advance,
Oliver